Ok well, where to begin. I could say that I read a lot(20-50 books per year). I like fantasy books and that is what I mostly read. Most resent would be the the books for the Faarseer trilogy From Robin Hobb. I have read these once already also I have read the other books in this universe.

So on to recommendations. It has to be the Malazan book of the fallen series(read this 3 times already). A word of warning, there are 10 books in the series. Additional side story books as well. They are very complex with loads of characters and nothing is really being told to the reader you have to figure out information based on the bits you are given. So not light reading as such.

i enjoyed the farseer/liveship/the one after that trilogies but haven’t read past that.Does that world ever stop shitting on it’s characters?

I am currently reading TA Today; A New Introduction to Transactional Analysis.

Do comics count? If so, everyone should read Sex Criminals.I recently read the Rick and Morty comics, Age of Ultron vs Marvel Zombies, Old Man Logan v2, and I’ve started re-reading 100 bullets and will shortly read the most recent Wildstorm.

@adrock no I don’t think it will ever stop shitting on the characters. @ChEd the movie put me off the book and I have not read it. Also it is the usual way, books are best and adaptations to a movie or series are never as good. Usually these do not follow the books properly even to the extent of changing the mood of the whole thing.

I’m probably not the best for this thread. I read continuously - and generally 3 or 4 books on the go at once.

Most recent (ie since the summer) were the Neal Asher War Factory series, a couple of Alastair Reynolds, latest Peter F Hamilton and a re-reading of Iain M Banks’ Culture series (so glad I got to meet him a few times before he sadly went).

Also managed to take in the 15 Lives of Harry August and Claire North’s other mental book - Touch, as well as re-reading classic Philip K Dick shorts in time for the TV series…

Currently proofreading the drafts of Krystle Kingston’s 2nd novel in her Rose series - it’s not my usual genre (it’s Victorian Romantic Vampire…) but I quite like proofreading, and I think the series will go down well with quite a large audience.

I don’t know how you can do that 3-4 books on the go at once. My GF does the same thing. I tried this with 2 different Dan Brown books, needles to say it did not go well and I never finished either book.

Well…Dan Brown is not a good author so I’m not surprised you didn’t finish them, I bought them and was immediately disappointed - turns out the most common books given to charity shops are Dan Brown and 50 Shades…

If you want to go high brow with it read Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco. It’s where Dan Brown got a lot of his ideas from but it’s research is far far deeper. And the language and writing is infinitely better.